Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The NHL's discipline policy has been in the news again lately. We've seen various incidents involving Alexander Ovechkin, Mike Richards, Curtis Glencross, Colton Orr and others, not to mention the OHL's season-long ban to Mike Liambas.

And as always, the NHL's suspension decisions have been criticized. It's the usual refrain: discipline is handed out haphazardly, almost randomly, and there doesn't seem to be any sort of consistency.

Nonsense. The criticism is unfair and unfounded. The NHL has a clear policy when it comes to suspensions, and the policy is followed faithfully. The league just hasn't decided to share it. So I'm doing it for them.

Yes, I have a copy of the NHL's discipline policy. And given recent events, I think it's only fair that hockey fans everywhere get to see it.

So here, straight from the desk of Colin Campbell himself, is the super top secret policy for handing out suspensions:

nice post. i love it when you rip Cox. you know, all things considered he might be the least annoying Toronto beat writer. its just his articles that have to do with anything physical (fights, hitting, suspensions, etc) that are unbarable

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This diagram is beyond funny, amazing, and accurate. Down Goes Brown is always welcome on PuckDrop to write (with lots of love back to Down Goes Brown), join us on a video, or our upcoming live show. This is some serious funny stuff. McRedwing and I were laughing hard on the phone when I read this out. Awesome.

Just about the French version: the website Doug Janik Tabarnak (a satirical "tribute" to Doug Janik, who wore the Canadiens jersey for a fabulous total of two games) made a version adapted to the Quebecer context. They put your URL as credit, but their own on the image (I'll scold them for that). The Damian Cox sentence was turned to: "Did Benoît Brunet say it was the other guy's fault because he didn't protect himself?" Benoît Brunet is actually Cox's opposite, but the effect is as funny.

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I know everyone is going to say this about their own team, but you should include "Was it a member of the Flyers?---->automatic suspension despite the circumstances" and "Was it a member of the Penguins?------>NO suspension, even if they nearly kill a guy"